GREAT BRITAIN: The Score

It had been expedient, when the Labor
Government was frittering away the U.S. loan, to minimize Sir Stafford
Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir
Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last
week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to
the British people. It was a grim score.

His audience was some 2,000 industrialists, businessmen, union and
government officials in London's Central Hall. Murmured a businessman,
as the president of Britain's Board of Trade tripped to the rostrum:
"There he comes, so quietly."